I don’t think soldiers are the equivalent of the messiah but I do think dying in defense of liberty is a noble thing. I’d rather people LIVE in defense of liberty, but I understand death is an inevitable outcome of war. I think soldiers do a job I would not or cannot do, and I admire them in the same way I admire heart surgeons, garbage collectors, and kindergarten teachers. I appreciate that all these folks are made of a toughness I do not possess.

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Here’s hoping soldiers lose their jobs due to lack of work. This is one of my terribly impractical pacifist Christian beliefs that makes no sense in a world gone mad but I have to believe it or go mad myself.

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